Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21173, Charles Gamberton, New Jersey

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New Jersey
Gamberton, Charles Mary
W 21173
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Dept Rev. 1
Let. to Hon. W. S. Lengen May 17th 1848. Let G. F. Lewis Oct 28, 1850.
2563.
New York Albany
Mary Gamerton widow of Charles Gamerton who was a sergeant in the N. Jersey line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Mar. 1843 and sent to Saml. Williams Jr Ithaca N.Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 106

Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefit of the Third Section of The act of Congress of the 21 st July 1836. State of New York Tompkins County ss. Be it known that on this sixth day.
of August In the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and forty. Personally appeared before me Henry S. Walbridge one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Tompkins. - The Widow Mary Gamberton, A Resident of said County of Tompkins in the State of New York, Aged Eighty years. (Who hereby certify cannot from Bodily Infirmary attend the Court) And Who being by me first duly Sworn, according to Law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 21 st 1836. That she is the Widow of Charles Gamberton late of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey deceased Who was an Enlisted Soldier, In Captain Farmers Company of Infantry and served as an orderly Sergeant in said Company in Colonel Martains Regiment New Jersey Line in the war of the Revolution, and served in said Regiment for three years or more. - And the said Mary Gamberton further declares that her Maiden name was Mary Nee, And that she was Married to the said Charles Gamberton on the Seventh day of March In the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty, at the house of Daniel Nee in the Township of Woodbridge County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey by the Rev d Mr. Nee, then pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Woodbridge, and whilst the said Charles Gamberton was a Soldier and in actual service during the duty of an orderly Sergeant in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution. - And that her husband the said Charles Gamberton died in the month of December In the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Ten, in the said Township of Woodbridge in said County of Middlesex And that she has remained a Widow and unmarried ever

ever some that period is write more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed, — And the said Mary Gambleton further declares that the reason that she has not hitherto applied for a pension, is that she left Woodbridge Middlesex County five years ago to reside with her daughter in the said County of Tompkins in the State of New York, and did not know that Congress had passed any law giving Pensions to widows until about three months last past, — And further saith not sworn to and subscribed at Hector in the said County of Tompkins, the day and year first above written
Mary Gambleton D. M. R.
Before me
H. S. Walbridge Judge of Tompkins County County Commissioner of the Supreme Court.
State of New York Tompkins County } I, Nathaniel Huntington Clerk of said County do hereby certify that H. S. Walbridge Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was taken has been subscribed and sworn to, was at the time thereof, a Judge of Tompkins County, Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereon is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, the sixth day of August 1840
N. Huntington Clerk

State of New Jersey } Middlesex County }
I William P Deane clerk of the court of common pleas in & for the county of Middlesex in the state afo d . certify that Richard Marsh and Ichabod Potter Esquires who have subscribed their names to the aff d avits on the other half part of this sheet were at the times therein respectively set forth justices of the peace of the said county of Middlesex duly commissioned and sworn and to their acts therein full credit is to be given. — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & the seal of said court at New Brunswick this first day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred seventeen.
Wm P Deane Clerk Middlesex County
New Jersey to all whom these presents shall come Greeting. Whereas I have William Governor of the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that William P Deane who has subscribed his name to the above certificate is and was at the time thereof clerk of the court of com- mon pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in the state aforesaid. and that to his acts as such full faith and credit is to be given In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the state of New Jersey to be affixed at Elizabeth town this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred seventeen. Sam Williams

You know that we are not...
State of New Jersey } Personally appeared before me Rich Middlesex County } ard North one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Middlesex, Blike Blasting and being sworn saith that on the Seventh day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty, she was at the house of Daniel Roe in Woodbridge and saw Mary Gannerton now a widow Married to Charles Gannerton, by the Reverend Abel Roe D.D.
Richard North Blike for Blasting justice
State of New Jersey } Personally appeared Middlesex County } before me Charles Potter one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Middlesex Jeremiah Daly and being duly sworn saith that he was present when Charles Gannerton was married to Mary Gannerton formerly Mary Roe that they were married by the Reverend Abel Roe at the house of Daniel Roe father of said Mary but the time when he was not recollect Sworn before me this } Jeremiah Daly 29 th day September 1817 } Charles Potter Justice of the peace

Be it known to whom it may concern that we are personally acquainted with Mary Gamberter widow of Charles Gamberter Deceased. and with her two sons and one daughter viz. Charles Gamberter, Joel Gamberter, Susan Gamberter now Gilmore, Nancy Gamberter now Dayley. Also Mary M Gamberter Aphelia Clark Gamberter now Gilmore, Hannah Gam- berter, Martha Gamberter - which are now living and to our knowledge are the children of the said Mary Gamberter, which she had while she was the wife of the said Charles Gamberter Deceased.
Robert Roe
John Roe
Before me Richard Marsh one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Middlesex the above said Robert Roe and John Roe and being duly sworn say that the above affida- -vit to which they have subscribed their names, is the truth, and nothing but the truth, sworn before me this twenty third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four
Richard Marsh

In the Matter of the Application of the Widow Mary Gamberton for a pension under the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836.
State of New Jersey.
Opf County ——— Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller
A Justice of the peace in and for said County Thomas Bloomfield of the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey. Known to me to be a Respectable person and Entitled to Credit as a Witness. — And being by me duly sworn on his oath saith That he is in the Seventy ninth year of his age, And was Well acquainted with Charles Gamberton, and Mary his wife (Formerly Mary Noe) of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey during the war of the Revolution, And is also knowing that the said Charles Gamberton was an Entitled Soldier and belonged to the New Jersey Line, and done an Orderly Sergeant's duty in the war of the Revolution but cannot now say, what Company or Regiment he belonged to. And this deponent further saith, that the said Charles Gamberton was frequently entertained at his father's house in the said County of Middlesex New Jersey, during said war, and that the said Charles Gamberton and Mary his wife always Resided together as husband and wife and Resided so to be until the death of the said Charles Gamberton, which took place about thirty years ago. And this deponent further saith that the said Mary Gamberton left the said County of Middlesex about five years ago, and that he has been credably informed and fully believes that she now resides with her daughter in the County of Tompkins in the State of New York. And this deponent further saith that if the said Charles Gamberton was now living would be as much as Eighty two years of Age — And further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed at ——— Thomas Bloomfield
Rahway in said County this sixteenth day of July A. D. 1840 —
Before me Sam l B. Miller — Justice of the peace

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21173
Mary Gambetta wid of Charles Gambetta Sgt. Paw. war.
Act March 3 rd  1/48
Index: Vol. 24 , Page 265
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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N. Jersey York Mary Gambiton At. S.B. Miller 10 Sep. 1840
Act July 1840 1836

Mary Gumbertson
Act. July 7. 1838
Marr'd 7 March 1780
Husband d. 1810
Col Martin } N. Jersey Capt Forman } Line
Enl. 8 June 1777 transferred Surg. Nov 1777 discharged Dec 1779-
Admitted
Resided Sept 2 years
$120
J. B. Miller Esq. New Ark N. J.

Mary Gamberton Albany N.Y. act. 7. July '38 last paid? and in name of the attto -
10 Nov. 42
GMP
Paid in full 2 nd gr. 1849. -
Mr Joel Gamberton, Attorney.
B. L. Bryan
520.02 72 448.02
Joel

let: 21 Oct: 42 to Arad Joy. Same. Nov. 16. 1842
Albany 5900
Mary Gamberton widow of Charles Gamberton
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the night of Dec: 1830 of Mississippi Co. in the State of N. York who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Hornbeck of the regt. commanded by Col. Clinton in the N. Jersey line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 120 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Nov. 1840 and sent to J. B. Miller Newark. N. Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1840 $540.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sep. 41. 60.00
$ 600.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book 9. Vol. 2.
Clerk, Page 80

X no 5158 Declaration and Evidence of the Widow Mary Gamberton for a pension under the act of Congress of July 4 th 1834
Sam l H. Miller Newark New Jersey

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1830. Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows State of New York,
Tompkins County ss Be it known that on this Second day of October
In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Forty Personally appeared before me Henry S. Wallbridge one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Tompkins. — The Widow Mary Gamberton of President of the said County of Tompkins in the State of New York aged Eighty years. (Who I hereby certify cannot from Bodily Infirmary attend the said Court) And who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath make the following Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1830. Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. — That she is the identical person who heretofore made a Declaration, on or about the sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Forty for a pension under the act of Congress of July 4 th 1836. Before Henry S. Wallbridge Esq one of the Judges of said Court. — That she is the Widow of Charles Gamberton late of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey deceased. — Who was an Enlisted Soldier for three years or during the war of the Revolution. — And served as an Orderly Sergeant In Captain Thomson Company of Infantry in Colonel Martin's Regiment, In the service of the United States in the New Jersey Line. — And the said Mary Gamberton further declares, that her Maiden Name was Mary Nee , and that she was Married to the said Charles Gamberton on the Seventh day of March In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty, at the House of her Father Daniel Nee , in the Township of Woodbridge , Middlesex County New Jersey by the Rev d  C. W. Roe then pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Woodbridge , And that her husband the aforesaid, Charles Gamberton died in the Month of December, Eighteen hundred and Ten (as near as she can now remember) in the said Township of Woodbridge . That she was not Married to him prior to his leaving the service above mentioned

Mentioned but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January Eighteen hundred and Ninetyfour By at the time above stated. — And that she has remained a Widow and Unmarried ever since the death of her said husband. — And the said Mary Gamberton hereby Relinquishes all claim that she may have for a pension under the act of July 4 th 1836. Provided she has a full pension granted her under the act of Congress of July 7 th 1830. And the said Mary Gamberton further declares that the reason that she has not applied for a pension before this time is that she left Woodbridge Middlesex County New Jersey about five years ago to reside with her daughter in Tompkins County in the State of New York. And did not know that Congress had passed an act granting pensions to certain Widows but a short time before she made her first declaration. — And the said Mary Gamberton do hereby Authorize the Commissioner of pensions to transfer all the evidence annexed to her first Declaration to to this her Second Declaration; — And further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed at Hector in the said County of Tompkins on the day and year above written. — Before me
for Mary L. Gamberton Murke
H S Wallridge Judge of Tompkins County Cabinets Counsellor etc
7440
State of New York Tompkins County ss. I, W. D. Huntington Clerk of said County do hereby certify that H S Wallridge Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration affidavit purports to have been subscribed, was, at the date thereof, a Judge of Tompkins County Court, Counsellor etc. And that his signature to said is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name. I affixed the seal of said County This 3rd day of Oct. 1840
W. D. Huntington Clerk

10 Nov. 1842
Rev.
Dr. Cummins
20 Genderton
M. Garmant
J. L. Edwards Comt. of Pensions Washington DC

Hon J L Edwards
Ovid Seneca 6 o New York Nov 5 th 1842
Dear Sir
I feel delicate to write a word more upon the subject of Widow Mary Gumbertons pension, but I am importuned to do it & I beg that I may be excuse for giving the history as they give it to me - Mrs Gumbertons son who was present when her application was made out before Judge Walbridge, says that nothing was said of her husband leaving the service prior to her marriage to him, as she could not have stated such a circumstance, inasmuch as the papers presented to you in her behalf, proved the date of the marriage & the date of his last period of service, which by comparison, would establish the fact that her husband was in the service after her marriage, if so, it would appear that she would come under the law of 1836. my I ask you to please look at those papers & be so kind as to inform me whether you have not the proof now in hand to entitle her to a pension under the act of '36 the old lady is so confident of it, that she will not be persuaded but that it is so; no doubt but your department will readily rectify an error of this kind if you find it to be so. Yours Very Ob o Servt Asad Joy

In the Matter of the application of the Widow Mary Gamberton for a pension Under the act of Congress of July 4 th 1836
State of New Jersey
Essex County — S d Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller
A Justice of the peace in and for said County the Reverend W m B. Benton A Respectable Clergyman Presiding at Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey Who being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is Forty-eight — years of age That he has been Pastor of the Presbyterian Church and congregation at Woodbridge aforesaid Upwards of Seventeen — years And the said deponent further saith that the Rev d Aziel Hove was pastor of said Church during the war of the Revolution & until the year 1815 — as the Records of said Church will show and before this deponent resided there And this deponent further saith After making diligent search and Inquiry he has never been able to find any Marriage Record kept by the Rev d Mr Hove or the Church whilst he was pastor of the same, And that the said Rev d Mr Hove has been dead for a Number of years past, — And further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed this                      William B. Benton. Sixteenth day of July A.D. 1840
Before me Sam l B. Miller Justice of the peace

In the Matter of the Application of the Widow Mary Gamberton for a pension under the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836.
State of New Jersey,
Essex County - ss
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller A Justice of the peace in and for said County Yoel Gamberton of the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, known to me to be a Respectable person and entitled to credit as a witness. - And being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is thirty six years of age and is the youngest child of Charles Gamberton and Mary his wife, that his father the said Charles Gamberton died in the Township of Woodbridge County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey in the year Eighteen hundred and ten and that his Mother the said Mary Gamberton is still living and now resides with her daughter in the County of Tompkins in the State of New York, where she has resided about five years being now unable to return to New Jersey. - And this deponent further saith that his Mother's Maiden name was Mary Nae and that she is now Eighty years of age and has remained a Widow and unmarried ever since the death of his said father and further saith not
Sworn to and subscribed at Newark in said County this 10 th day of August A. D. 1840. - Before me
Yoel Gamberton
Sam l B. Miller Justice of the peace

In the Matter of the Application of the Widow Mary Gamber-ton for a pension under the act of Congress passed
State of New Jersey
Essex County
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in and for said County Isaac Sears of Middlesex County New Jersey known to me by general reputation to be a Respectable person and Entitled to credit as a witness, and being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the seventy ninth years of his age, that he was well acquainted with Charles Gamber-ton of the County of Middlesex New Jersey during the war of the Revolution and is knowing that the said Charles Gamber-ton was an Enlisted Soldier for three years or during the war of the Revolution and belonged to Colonel Matthias Ogden Regiment, or Colonel Martyn's Regiment and done the duty of an Orderly Sergeant This deponent further saith that, he was an enlisted soldier and Belonged to the same Regiment with the said Charles Gamber-ton and that he and the said Charles Gamber-ton was together under General Sullivan, in the campaign against the Indians in the upper part of the State of New York and Pennsylvania, and fully believes and is well satisfied that, the Charles Gamber-ton served out his full term of service. — And further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed to his Isaac + Sears Newark in said County month June 11 th 1840. Before me
Sam l B. Miller Justice of the peace

In the matter of the application of the Widow Mary Gambleton for a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836
State of New Jersey Essex County ss Personally appeared before me John D. Clark a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Essex Obediah Ayre of the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey known to me to be a respectable person and entitled to be believed as a witness and being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the eightieth year of his age and was well acquainted with Charles Gambleton and Mary his wife (formerly Mary Roe) of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey during the term of the Revolution, and is knowing that the said Mary Gambleton was her said husband as a married woman whilst the said Charles Gambleton was an enlisted soldier in the service of the United States in the New Jersey line in company at the same time in the same neighbourhood and being frequently at the residence of the said Charles Gambleton and further understood that the said Charles Gambleton was enlisted for three years & served out his full term of service, and the deponent further saith that the said Charles Gambleton and Mary his wife always resided together as husband and wife and respected as such until the death of the said Charles Gambleton which took place as much as twenty five years ago and if now living would be as much as eighty one or two years of age. And further saith that he has been and subscribed at Rahway in said County of Essex this Eighteenth day of August A D 1840 before me John D. Clark Justice of Peace
Obediah Ayre

In the matter of the application of the Widow Mary Gambleton for a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 16 1836
State of New Jersey Essex County ss
Personally appeared before me John D. Clerk of the peace in and for the said County of Essex Abdiah Ayre of the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey known to me to be a respectable person and entitled to be cred it ed as a witness, and being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the eightieth year of his age and was well acquainted with Charles Gambleton and Mary his wife (formerly Mary Wood) of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, during the time of the Revolution, and is knowing that the said Mary Gambleton was living here as a married woman whilst the said Charles Gambleton was an Enlisted soldier in the service of the United States in the New Jersey line in company at the same time in the same neighbourhood and being frequently at the residence of the said Charles Gambleton and further understood that the said Charles Gambleton was enlisted for three years or service out his full term of service, and the deponent further saith that the said Charles Gambleton and Mary his wife always resided together as husband and wife and respected as such until the death of the said Charles Gambleton which took place as much as twenty five years ago and if now living would be as much as eighty one or two years of age. And further saith the deponent to and subscribed at Rahway in said County of Essex this Eighteenth day of August A D 1840 before me
Abdiah Ayre
John D. Clegg Clerk of the Peace
(Signature)

State of New Jersey County of Essex 3/4
I John P. Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex & of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify That Samuel B. Miller before whom the affidavits hereto annexed of William B. Barton, Joel Gamberton, Thomas Bloomfield and Isaac Sears, were severally made and taken, was then and still is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn; also John T. Marsh before whom the annexed affidavit of Obadiah Ayres was made and taken, at the time of taking the same, was and is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn; that the signatures "Sam. B. Miller" and "John T. Marsh" affixed to the several of said respective affidavits, are genuine, and that full faith and credit are due and may be given to their official acts. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Newark in said County of Essex the Twenty first day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred Forty (1840).
J. P. Jackson Clerk

A Return of the 4 th Regiment of the State of New Jersey in the service of the United States of America under the com- mand of Ephraim Martin Esqr. Coll:
   By whom Enlisted Names of the Enlisted Time of Enlistment Place of Enlistment Deserted Dead     Captain Formans Comp y 1 Charles Lamberton December 1 st Middlesex  
Camp Woodbridge May 21 st 1777
A True Return Ephraim Martin Coll:—
True copy from the original
Jersey ss.
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing are true extracts an ancient paper relating to the Rev- olutionary war, endorsed "May 21 st 1777 Return of Col. Martin's 4 Reg t . New Jersey Regulars", now remaining on file in my office.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton in said State, this tenth day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty. (1840)
— James D. Westcott

I the subscriber do hereby certify that I am now seventy six years of age residing in the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey & that I was well acquainted with Charles Gamberon in his lifetime & with Mary his widow & that I have frequently heard & verily believe that said Gamberon was enlisted & served in the U. S. State service during the Revolutionary War & to the end of said war part of which service was performed under Capt. Thomas in Col B. Marks Regiment & that he was in the service in the capacity of orderly sergeant Woodbridge July 17 th 1860
Isaac Potters one of the Judges of the County Court of Common Pleas

I do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Charles Gamberston deceased in his lifetime & that it was generally reported & believed in the neighborhood that he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army during the Revolution & was an orderly sergeant in Capt. Fournier's Company in Col. Matthias Ogden's Reg t in the Jersey Brigade and that Robert Coddington deceased & William Jones who served in the same Reg t made affidavits before me as a Magistrate some years past in confirmation of the foregoing facts. Mary Gamberston his widow now living & in needy circumstances states that he never obtained his bounty lands
May 1 st 1835
Isaac Potters
As at the war office in Washington the fact of Gamberston's serving in the army may offer of New

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Mary Gumberton
$120 per am
Sam Britten den Jr, Ithaca, New York

State of New York Tompkins County ss: On this Twenty fourth day of July 1843. personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for said County Mary Gamberton a resident of Eufala in the said County of Tompkins aged 85 or 90 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, utters on her oath, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the pro- vision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd of March 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the Widow of Charles Gamberton who was a Sergeant in Capt. Fairman's Company in the New Jersey line in the War of the Revolution: for which she has under the Act of July 7. 1838 received a pension of One Hundred and Twenty Dollars per Annum.
And she further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed on this _____ day and year first above written before me. } Mary Gamberton Joshua Rousey J.P. } mark
Witness present Moses Gibson
I Certify that I am well acquainted with the said Widow named Mary Gamberton: that she is a credible person and her statements are entitled to full credit & belief: That she cannot write her name but makes her mark for the reason she is so old & infirm as to disable her - as I am informed by the Testimony of Moses Gibson Joshua Rousey J.P.
State of New York Tompkins County ss: I Norman C. Lintudun Deputy Clerk of the said County of Tompkins & of the County Courts in & for said County do hereby Certify that Joshua Rousey Esq before whom the above declaration purports to have been subscribed & sworn whose name is subscribed to the jurat thereto & to the Certificate thereunder written was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in & for said County Elected & sworn & duly authorized by law as such Justice. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice: that his signatures to said jurat & Certificate are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & official seal at Ithaca this 25 th day of July A.D. 1843 - N. C. Lintudun Deputy Clerk

Oct 16 1840
92 3/4 one penny
Mary Chamberlin,
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of pensions Washington City.
D. C.
[Handwritten signature]

Newark New Jersey October 12 th 1840 J. S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I received your letter dated Pension Office September 10 th , 1840
Stating that the papers of Mrs. Mary Gamberton, Widow of Charles Gamberton, have been examined and filed. The Claimants husband it appears quit the service in December 1829. About three months before the date of her Marriage. She is therefore not entitled to the benefit of the act of July 4 th 1836. But may sustain her claim under the act of July 7 th 1830.
I therefore have the Hon or to transmit to you Mrs. Mary Gamberton's Second Declaration made under the act of Congress of July 7 th 1830. By which she Relinquishes her claim to a pension under the act of July 4 th 1836 And authorizes you to Transfer the evidence, Annexed to her first Declaration, to the one now enclosed, Believing that her Witnesses must be, mistaken as to the last Period of her Husbands Service. — And if in service after Marriage it must have been in the Common Militia of which she has no evidence. — Which last Declaration you will please to file in your office, and examine as soon as convenient,
With all due respect and esteem
I remain yours &c.
Sarah H. Miller

W. S. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. G.

Newark New Jersey August 24 th 1840 J. S. Edwards Esq - Commissioner of pension
Sir I herewith enclose to you the Declaration and evidence of the Widow Mary Gomberton for a pension under the act of July 4 th 1836. Which you will please to file in your office and examine in turn.
And if you grant her a pension certificate you will please make it payable at the pension agency in the City of New York. Supposing as the Applicant now Resides in the State of New York, it will have to be made payable Sum where in said State, and it would be most convenient in said City.
With the highest Respect I Remain Yours &c.
Sam l B. Miller

Oct 4. 1842
My
Hon Gambel
J. L. Edwards Com d of Pensions Washington D.C.

Ovid Seneca County N.Y.
Oct 17. 1842
Hon J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
I have long been importuned to assist Widow Gamberton of Tompkins Co. N.Y. in obtaining a pension, but finally I am informed that she once obtained a pension certificate & put it into the hands of a man in New Jersey & has rec d . on it some $100. and is not now able to get hold of it, nor can she state under which law it was granted, whether of July 1836 or July 1838. and if I may be allowed to ask, I would thank you to inform me the law under which her pension was granted, & the am t per annum, which I think will settle the question with her
Your Ob d Serv t Asa D. Jay